Martin O'Neill says Aston Villa have written to Liverpool to propose a deal that should finally see Gareth Barry move to Anfield.Liverpool are desperate to sign the Villa captain and last week saw a new bid of £15million rejected.
Villa have already turned down multiple offers from their Premier League rivals, with O'Neill valuing his skipper in the £18million bracket.
Reports suggest that O'Neill would be willing to accept £17million plus Reds full-back Steve Finnan in part exchange.
O'Neill has not confirmed his interest in Finnan, but has revealed that a proposal has been put to his Liverpool counterpart Rafa Benitez.
Up to Liverpool
"Liverpool have come back to us and we have responded to their proposal with a letter," O'Neill told the Birmingham Mail.
"We're still waiting to hear back from Liverpool after putting that proposal to them.
"It's really up to Liverpool. I really don't know how it's going to work out at the moment.
"I'm sure there will be some sort of resolution at some stage or another."
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Martin O'Neal..."Don't you think he's looking tired"
Martin O'Neal..."Don't you think he's looking tired"
oh and by the way, i dont think steve finnan and 17 million is the value of Barry,
barry is worth 5 million and steve finnan
cuz i think finnan has played many great games for liverpool and is a great defender; finnan = 8 million - 13million range
as a liverpool fan,
i would love to see Barry come to Anfield
hes a great player, and is modest about it, unlike Adebayor and Hleb
hed benefit greatly by playing at liverpool, and liverpool would benefit from the way he runs the midfield, he works extremly well along side Stevie G, and would provide many assists to Torres and whomever else ends up up front; Kuyt, voronin, etc.
Liverpool should pull out. Barry is 27 and not worth the hassel and certainley not £18 million. O'Neale is determined to play the egotistical maniac, and try to scavenge as much cash from Liverpool as he can get, and it ammounts to extortion. O'Neale is a hypocrite who wants it all ways, wishing to villify Barry for talking to the press, but then give his own daily commentry about the situation Want to see them stuck with a pissed off player who they can't sell or play. It would be no great loss to Liverpool who have plenty of options.
I think alonso should be giving more chance, so that liverpool can concentrate on the preparation to win primier league this season.Pls i want liverpool to pick the primier title this season.
How can that hideous little man in charge of Villa be so crazy to say £17mil plus Stevie Finnan, what a player he's been down the years, if Rafa wants to make a T!T of himself then yes, but I think it's time we all stopped and remembered Gareth Barry is not good enough to start in Liverpools strongest eleven, the only Villa player who is we should have signed when they did and that is Ashley Young.
£10mil for Carson? £11mil for Crouch? Theyre not overrated? We dont have to sell Barry at all. We have money to spend. The ONLY reason Barry is going is because he wants to. So, Liverpool either pay what we want or give up
Finnan is a great player but fastly approaching the twilight years of his footballing career.i think hes worth 1.5 million though in this deal barry will prove to be a great adidtition to the team raising morale and options for rafa.......come on you reds
It is not always about the best players but also balance in a team, that is why Barry will be a good signing. With Agger back to fitness we could have three left footed players playing. Sad to see Crouch going, he was the only striker who could play the Torres role and link with Gerrard. Please lets get rid of Voronin before the season starts, also we need a left winger and either Pennant or Benayoun should go. Final point, when are we going to see a player come through the Academy? It is a waste of time at the moment.
i'm a full blooded liverpool fan and its now about time for Rafa to walk away O'neill is just trying to hold pool to ransom for a player that is slightly overrated anyway,finnan 1million your havin a laugh????????????????????
MON is such a @#$%
yeh i agree with garywangcw. 10 mil plus finnan is enough..take it or leave it o'neill! we have alonso anyway,he can give killer passes that barry can never give!keep alonso rafa!
Finnan worth only 1 million pound to Villa? I think Martin O'Neill must be drunk silly. 10 million pounds plus Steve Finnan would be a good deal for Villa. He should stop being silly and do business or Liverpool should just walk away. Barry is over-rated anyway!
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